1/3/06: DA stinctions eVINCIally CODEfied: 2006’s Big Winner? “Dimmi More”
CitizenU welcomes 2006. Aptly said to be the world’s malignancy, progress stares us in the face. What will most likely occupy our time, as a polity, this year? Who/What will be 2006’s big winner?
Blogs? Will blogs and other digital delights finally lay to rest the relevance of MSM (main stream media)?
The Supreme Court? Will Sandra D. O’Connor have an extra year on the bench and a saving vote on privacy to brag about?
The Democrats? Will the Democrats regain control of Congress?
Whistle-Blowers? Will Jack Abramoff and others squeal loud enough to reform Congressional pork before heading to the pen?
George W. Bush? Will the president find an approving public when talk of expanding the war on terror is heard?
New Orleans? Will New Orleans be back and in the news?
Hillary R. Clinton? Will this Lady be in line to be truly First?
Iraq? Will success in Iraq be measured by their constitutional ability and effort to invade Iran?
Perhaps. But the the big winner in 2006 will be “dimmi more.” Fear not, we are not renaming ourselves CitizenUS Weekly and fixating on Hollywood gossip. Interestingly, “dimmi” is a word doodled all over the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci as revealed in a recent biography (such usefulness you will not find in a phenom. book of fiction bearing the same name). Apparently “dimmi” was something Da Vinci always had on his mind. So too do we. So too do many of you. Therefore “dimmi” and more of it will be the big winner in 2006.
What does “dimmi” mean? “Tell me.” The big winner this year will be “information” gatherers. The superhighway of information available to all has leveled the playing field. The elites are being replaced by aggressive minds seeking new answers to old questions. Though outrageous, you have to admire (even a little bit?) Farris Assan. A high school boy was dissatisfied with the news he was hearing and hopped a plane to Iraq to file his own report. Farris was screaming, DIMMI! Tell me more!
We commit CitizenU to respond to this simple clarion call - “tell me.” We will. We ask the same of you - “tell me.” This will be the big winner in 2006. Go tell everybody...just in time.
posted by CitizenU @ 11:54 AM
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2 Comments:
This Farris Hassan story is the most interesting of the new year. It initially seemed to be a story of another spoiled American kid on a publicity seeking joy ride. And that was probably his intent.
But the media buzz has been exclusively about how lucky he is to be alive after surviving a trek on the streets of Baghdad, "the world's most dangerous city."
The coverage of his survival shows us two things: 1. perhaps the streets of Baghdad are not as dangerous as we are led to believe. 2. American journalists rarely travel outside of the secured zones in Baghdad which limits the amount of decent information that we receive.
I can't believe I'm writing this, but I'd rather hear this kid's perspective about the streets of Baghdad than the view of some CNN reporter who's been shacked up in the Green Zone for 6 months!
Brutus
hey. don't dis hollywood gossip.
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